Den Yellek

🇦🇺 #Austrich
Trying to live a good life in a world gone mad.

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2025-01-27 11:22:35

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I think what is impressing people is less its capabilities and more how cheaply and efficiently it was able to be trained. As twell as the face that it has been open sourced.

2025-01-07 12:32:07

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This makes me think of how the rise of AI is yet another blow in the death of the individual.
No more are we stumbling across blogs or personal websites, finding a helpful user in a forum or coming upon someone with a passion and a drive to share their knowledge online.
Now humanity has been extracted, refined and regurgitated in a convenient format.
The technology is amazing but I can't help but wonder what we are going to lose along the way.

2025-01-06 12:43:39

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Exactly. Then add on super easy and fast cooking and shopping and it's just too good.
Not only that but it's delicious every singly day.
Ahh it's a dream ❤️🥩❤️

2025-01-06 12:33:56

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🟠

2025-01-06 12:14:07

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https://media.tenor.com/OudZ6DL3rCgAAAAC/%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5-men-in-black.gif

2025-01-06 12:12:59

Carnivore feels like a cheat code for life.

2025-01-06 02:04:34

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I have become somewhat blackpilled in regards to people waking up.
It is not that their eyes are closed and they need to open them but rather that their eyes have been surgically removed and they have lost the capacity to see for themselves.
Their very means of sensing reality are reacting to it has been systematically eroded.
Like a whale attempting to leave the ocean and once again run on what used to be its legs. The capacity is gone.

2025-01-05 14:18:12

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I get that.
If you do decide to go with your initial idea and are looking for simplicity rather than having them download a wallet to transmit the transaction you could simply point them to a website to broadcast such as https://mempool.space/tx/push

2025-01-05 14:02:52

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Have you looked in to a Bitkey?
They have tools to help with inheritance.
https://bitkey.build/inheritance-simplifying-the-transfer-of-bitcoin-to-future-generations/

2025-01-05 13:57:21

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I suppose if you were willing to add complexity you could have multiple signed at different rates.

2025-01-05 13:52:13

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The only thing that immediately comes to mind is ensuring the fee is sufficiently high to account for future fee rates since you don't know what the rates will be at the time of transmission.

2025-01-04 03:50:16

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Depends on the VPN connection. If I am asked to sign in I just set my VPN to a different server and it works.

2025-01-04 01:08:12

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Here are some Victorian stats.
I looked on https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/
I could not see anything there comparing it to other states however one article I clicked on said Victoria was still lowest in Aus for crime.
https://m.primal.net/NRCF.jpg

2025-01-04 00:44:51

A common critique of anarchy is asking how police and security services will be provided.
It turns out to be the same way it is provided in a democracy once the state eventually buckles under the weight of its own bloat and begin its eventual degeneration.
In Melbourne we are learning this now as crime rates explode and residents turn to hiring private security rather than rely on the inneficient and poor quality services of our broke state government.
https://m.primal.net/NRAk.jpg

2025-01-03 06:16:28

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The justification for this as it is with all taxation is "might is right".

2025-01-02 08:20:52

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Oh no that is actually scary because I can see it.

2025-01-02 07:12:44

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I am just waiting for the day they put a pool fence down the side of the ocean at the beach.
Only unlocks between the flags.

2025-01-02 06:25:54

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The regulations in Melbourne are insane.
Don't even think about getting an illegal inflatable pool this summer. The fines for having an unregistered pool are $1,600 and if you didn't build a fence around it then the fines can be over $20,000.

2025-01-02 06:15:02

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So many still want the power to exist as they hope that they can stay close to it.

2024-12-27 22:55:23

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I would be happy to see mutual follower count.
How many people do I follow who also follow this person.

2024-12-27 21:45:05

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This is helpful.
I think the difficulty in the way I was viewing this comes from the fact that miners are now so seperated from every day peers.
Initially every peer was a miner so it was easier to see every person as an equal member for a p2p2p2p network. However as the global hash power increased and became ever more expensive this became a distant memory.

2024-12-27 12:45:39

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As you said they are "intermediaries".
Therefore how is it peer to peer if there is someone in the middle?
Do you understand what I am saying?
I am not arguing against bitcoin but simply wondering if you also think that referring to it as permissionless peer to peer electronic cash is misleading.

2024-12-27 11:09:18

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The argument is that not everyone would have to. Security would be provided as a service.

2024-12-27 10:27:59

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Michael Malice often talks about this point and says how the best criticism that comes against Anarchy is that we just end up with the state.
This chapter linked below in For a new Liberty addresses this topic and concerns. I have included the final two paragraphs which focus on the percieved legitimacy of government and how even in anarchy was to fail we would simply end up with the status quo.
https://mises.org/online-book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto/chapter-12-public-sector-iii-police-law-and-courts/outlaw-protectors
"One of the crucial factors that permits governments to do the monstrous things they habitually do is the sense of legitimacy on the part of the stupefied public. The average citizen may not like — may even strongly object to — the policies and exactions of his government. But he has been imbued with the idea — carefully indoctrinated by centuries of governmental propaganda — that the government is his legitimate sovereign, and that it would be wicked or mad to refuse to obey its dictates. It is this sense of legitimacy that the State’s intellectuals have fostered over the ages, aided and abetted by all the trappings of legitimacy: flags, rituals, ceremonies, awards, constitutions, etc. A bandit gang — even if all the police forces conspired together into one vast gang — could never command such legitimacy. The public would consider them purely bandits; their extortions and tributes would never be considered legitimate though onerous “taxes,” to be paid automatically. The public would quickly resist these illegitimate demands and the bandits would be resisted and overthrown. Once the public had tasted the joys, prosperity, freedom, and efficiency of a libertarian, State-less society, it would be almost impossible for a State to fasten itself upon them once again. Once freedom has been fully enjoyed, it is no easy task to force people to give it up.
But suppose — just suppose — that despite all these handicaps and obstacles, despite the love for their new-found freedom, despite the inherent checks and balances of the free market, suppose anyway that the State manages to reestablish itself. What then? Well, then, all that would have happened is that we would have a State once again. We would be no worse off than we are now, with our current State. And, as one libertarian philosopher has put it, “at least the world will have had a glorious holiday.” Karl Marx’s ringing promise applies far more to a libertarian society than to communism: In trying freedom, in abolishing the State, we have nothing to lose and everything to gain."

2024-12-26 03:10:57

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🤦
"If a million bots aren’t enough for you, the app also lets users pay 99 cents to double the number of likes and comments they receive on posts."

2024-12-26 03:06:51

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You are so right.
And the ability to tweak the algo to change what the bot followers respond positively or negatively to.
The ultimate peer pressure where the peers are all centrally controlled.
What a beautiful world we are stepping in to.

2024-12-26 03:01:17

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Smaller places like nostr are better.
But the dead internet is leaking. Starting to feel more like "The Dead World Theory" as the AI generation leaks into the real world. Primarily seeing it now through advertising but it will spread everywhere.

2024-12-26 02:44:36

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Literally.
"Be an influencer on this app, where a million bots are designed to hype you up
Become famous, loved, and loathed on a virtual social media plaform.
A new app known as “Botnet” simulates a social network where only one actual human exists: You."
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/botnet-social-network-simulator/

2024-12-26 02:35:34

Increasingly I am being confronted with AI generated garbage flooding the internet.
Even my work inbox has been infected with poorly generated AI images taking up half the email.
The internet is increasingly feeling like a lonely place. As if I am the only human faced with a wall of generatively created "content". The comment section no longer a small window into another humans mind but instead a transformer regurgitating words hoping to capitalise on engagement or sway opinion.
Maybe this will push people offline but the more realistic outcome is we all end up as lonely humans in a crowded theater of bots.

2024-12-23 09:47:37

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For many the act of living has become purely passive.

2024-12-19 10:19:50

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You have to find the balance between letting go of what is out of your control and becoming totally detached.

2024-12-19 09:50:18

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I have no personal experience using it but coinspot has a mastercard.

2024-12-19 09:46:42

It's a strange spot to be increasingly happy with the trajectory of your own life while becoming increasingly aware of the deterioration of the world around you.

2024-11-27 08:56:53

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A complete joke.
Gifted with with so much natural abundance to be completely squandered.

2024-11-27 06:57:59

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Something like this:
https://media.tenor.com/TO71xJBFXvYAAAAC/antigravity-toast.gif

2024-11-27 06:49:45

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It makes me think they will never really stop playing the music.
You could get everything you mentioned and the media and politicians would still be pumping out the music trying to get us to keep playing 😂

2024-11-27 06:27:56

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Amazing how fast you adjust to the price rises and what feels expensive or cheap.

2024-11-09 02:08:46

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Add on top of this using other betting platforms with mismatched odds and you can arbitrage positions instantly for a risk free return.

2024-10-30 04:44:59

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🌽 I LOVE IT 🌽
Haha it is truly something spectacular!

2024-10-29 10:01:53

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Sometimes it really does feel like I have just been let in to the group chat of a few big accounts here.
I completely agree with the off putting new user experience. I have never purple pilled anyone successfully for this reason. The experience just is not a good one.
I had an idea for a client the other day that was something like speed dating for nostr in a way. Every day/week whatever it groups some small (half a dozen or so) number of active posters together. For that week they can only see and interact with eachothers posts. Think being stuck in an elevator with people long enough to strike up a conversarion when ordinary you would have just stood there in silence. Maybe you make a friend you decide to "follow" and bring across to your other clients at the end of the week.

2024-10-29 09:24:49

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I see the struggle but is this not the case with any social media style app or more generally just how things distribute? Just another example of the Pareto principle at work?
It is more noticeable on nostr because as there are so few people here that the small selection of npubs that rise to the top are easier to see and recognise.
I agree that building out small communities is the way forward to build a place that people want to come. However even in these small communities I would expect it to distribute such that the majority of the posts are by a minority of the users.

2024-10-29 06:51:17

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Nothing about it felt easy to me haha!
The amazing people who can do this blow my mind.
https://media.tenor.com/_gMBxOM3_U0AAAAC/ab-wheel-abs.gif
I am more at this level. 😂
https://media.tenor.com/ZAh2p2c_6cYAAAAC/bam-ouch.gif

2024-10-29 05:04:22

Yesterday I had a go with one of those ab-wheels...today breathing hurts!
Man those things are tough.
#nosfit

2024-10-29 04:53:53

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Less compared to eachother. We are talking about Canidian vs Aussie dollars.

2024-10-29 04:51:48

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You are right that I was talking about value but if you want to get all in to the weeds they Aussie dollars are used far less as well as measured by either population using them or GDP.

2024-10-29 04:43:31

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Sadly our dollary-doos are even more useless than your maple-bucks.

2024-10-29 02:25:32

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About 0.1% increase it more?
What should you expect to pay for lightning?

2024-10-28 05:42:03

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Maybe have a look at https://highlighter.com/ or https://habla.news/

2024-10-28 05:36:16

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There must be some type of rating because you are asked to rate coordinator after a trade. Maybe koalasat can give some insight. I have seen them post about robosats and coordinators and discussed nostr reviews.
#nevent1q…daya

2024-10-28 05:05:00

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I did not feel like it was anything other than friendly I am just saying there is maybe no point going back and forth since who knows where peoples minds are at. From my experience people got pretty wild during covid. More than just a performance. I think I also have a poor perception because I live in a city that is very left.

2024-10-28 04:49:39

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I like your optimism and I won't argue with you.

2024-10-28 04:40:03

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Sure but at some point performative becomes reality. When you perform a certain way your actions are not on a stage. If you beat someone in a mob you can later say that your actions were just performative but there will still be a very real bloody person on the streets.

2024-10-28 04:30:30

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I don't know mate.
I think if you dropped of a random person from Melbourne at just about any point in the past they would be seen as pretty radical.
Then again if you were to drop them off their views would change because they are incapable of thinking for themself and will just follow the dominant narritave.

2024-10-27 16:36:12

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Weird that Australia seems to always be pushing whatever is the new crazy agenda but I don't notice that here.

2024-10-26 21:38:45

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You want to live somewhere where the people keep it a little weird.
I can relate. I feel a bit suffocated by the people where I live and love dreaming of my escape.

2024-10-26 21:22:18

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I had to look that up.
Wow looks beautiful.

2024-10-26 20:12:04

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Not just the internet.
I see so much woke off the screen as well.

2024-10-26 10:13:16

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Something to do with the tor/orbot settings?

2024-10-26 09:59:33

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Try global fees but using the conversations tab. Not as bad.

2024-10-26 07:45:59

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Nice one. Did he already have bitcoin?

2024-10-26 07:19:13

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The aliens will land then use the energt of their warp drives to mine bitcoin. The mining difficulty explodes and no human miners can catch up. The aliens however are smart enough to HODL so price goes through the roof. With no mining supply flooding the market we get the unlimate supply shock.
No one is ready for the extra terrestrial induced bull run.

2024-10-26 07:14:13

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Probably aliens.

2024-10-26 04:14:11

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Someone with AI can make a series of "Trump in love with a tarrif" images. 😂

2024-10-26 03:47:08

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Saying "I love you as much as Trump loves a tarrif" is now the ultimate declaration of love.

2024-10-25 23:50:55

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Thanks for the updated list.

2024-10-24 07:48:25

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If I ever saw someone reading that book I would probably get down on a knee and propose right there.

2024-10-24 00:16:53

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I just do not understand it.
Even the debate about yeild seems strange. Many of these bitcoin arguments just feel like politics now. People arguing talking points rather than trying to understand what is being said.

2024-10-23 23:54:14

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Is that real? Can it be real?
How do you end up in bitcoin and hold these views? Please it has to be satire or else someone purely trying to manipulate those who have no ability to think.

2024-10-23 11:34:45

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Yes something really does feel broken with some people.
Yesterday a coworker when on an unprompted rant about how crazy it is that no one has managed to kill Trump yet when he is clearly about to become an evil dictator... and I live in Australia!

2024-10-23 10:12:41

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I just embrace being the crazy one!

2024-10-22 11:44:19

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Enjoying se steak right now actually! Although it was cooked in my greasy kitchen. Not for long though. Soon I will be one of the cool kids cooking outside on a grill 🔥

2024-10-22 11:42:44

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It seems to me the problem is not with bitcoin directly but with private property in general.
Its almost as if they share some type of political belief that the state should own everything in order to bring equity to all...🤔

2024-10-22 11:05:12

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It seems many of the things we spend time arguing about, particularly political arguments, are intentionally designed to be this way. With both sides talking past eachother. And if not intentionally "designed" this way then intentionally engaged with in this way to maximise engagement (or enragement often) and to signal allegiance with a group rather than a true assessment of the disagreement.

2024-10-22 10:56:53

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Or you could just look stupid and people would wonder why it's not one post and some client's don't show comment chains that well.

2024-10-22 09:57:54

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Once I become lidiciously wealthy I am never wearing shoes or socks again.
Financial freedom means freedom for my toes as well!

2024-10-21 23:09:11

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Never slice.

2024-10-21 23:03:13

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Part 2 of the question is can either of you recommend a grill to buy? Does it matter what you get? I have a BBQ but Google tells me that's very different from grilling.
@nprofile…sezf

2024-10-21 22:59:01

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That is my current situation!

2024-10-21 22:48:00

Carnivores of Nostr how do you keep your kitchen from becoming one giant ball of grease? 😩
Do I just give up and embrace it or do I have to invest in some industrial grade turbo extractor fan?
#carnivore #asknostr #carnivorediet

2024-10-21 12:52:40

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If you can spend you bitcoin without leaving your house, flying to at least three continents, traversing the ocean in a submarine and using a time machine then your bitcoin is not safe.
I don't know how you all sleep at night.

2024-10-21 12:32:42

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Perhaps the question is "If he did think differently to what he is currently saying would he be currently saying what he really thinks?"
You can't know what is going on in his head but you can ask from the outside if we would even be able to see a differnce.

2024-10-21 12:05:19

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It is hard because he is not just speaking as a bitcoiner on a bitcoin podcast but as the head of a massive company. I think he is becoming increasingly careful of what he says. I am sure I have seen old interviews where he speaks differently on some of these issues. I think he is very aware of not painting a target on his back.
Maybe not quite voice of reason but voice of someone trying to sound reasonable to powerful people that could make his life very difficult.

2024-10-21 11:55:08

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I think he sinply sees a huge opportunity for his company and at a fundamental level is not ideologically aligned with hardcore anarchism.

2024-10-18 12:25:31

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I am concerned about mining and censorship.
What happens if the US + EU + whk ever else the pressure in to it pass a law saying any mining company must only include transactions in their block that are to/from approved addresses? You must follow our Whitelisting/Blacklisting laws or you will be prosecuted.

2024-10-18 12:19:41

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GM ☕

2024-10-18 11:47:49

GMs filling up my feed is my alarm telling me it's time to go to bed.

2024-10-18 09:57:41

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Victorian reporting in 🫡

2024-10-17 01:50:17

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I think https://albyhub.com/ would fit your needs well. Our goals seem aligned and this works great for me.

2024-10-17 01:38:27

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I have no experience with this personally. Hopefully the lnserver tutorials give you enough insight to get this to work for you.

2024-10-16 22:26:26

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Also I have just had a look and on chain transaction fees are quite high right now so that may make it expensive. It's better to open channels when the fees are low.

2024-10-16 22:23:09

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Depends on how your node is set up. With Alby Hub this is integrated easily under the node management page. You can also purchase directly from the LSP if you don't have something like Alby's build in integration. You could take a look at the liquidity provider "lnserver". They have tutorials walking you through the process on different node setups.
https://lnserver.com/

2024-10-16 22:05:21

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You can purchase inbound liquidity. You pay a lightning invoice and someone opens a channel with you.
The fees are always changing and differ for different LSPs however an example would be something like you might pay an invoice of 10k sats to a LSP and then they will open a 1million sat channel with you. The 10k data covers the on-chain fee plus a fee to the LSP.
At first all the liquidity will be on their side so you will only be able to recieve transactions through this channel. But once you have received you will be able to send back out through that channel.

2024-10-16 21:54:08

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"No you see I am not a monster! I have a moral code and set of values just like you however I will be happy to violate it if someone rewards me financially."

2024-10-15 09:43:19

Music is unreal.
It feels like a weird bug in the simulation that vibrating air can so profoundly impact our mood and emotions.

2024-10-15 09:27:13

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Sad to think about how much human potential has been stifled by burocracy and regulation.

2024-10-15 07:12:21

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We must. Given the direction of censorship I sometimes wonder if I need to turn in to a complete data hoarder and make a local backup of Library Genesis.

2024-10-14 11:59:56

Feeling privileged to live in a world with books and access to shared knowledge.
Amazing how a simple line or thought can be transmitted through a page and change your perspective. How words can flow through space and time to make a profound and instant difference to your perception of reality.

2024-10-12 01:58:47

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You only pay that fee once to open the channel to the LSP and then can use the channel until it is closed. I have been using Alby Hub for a few months and not had any channels closed on me.
There are a variety of reasons a channel could be closed and you can get some info here:
https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/faq-alby-hub/why-was-my-lightning-channel-closed-and-what-to-do-next

2024-10-10 11:50:30

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Running Alby hub is running a full lightning node so you are in full control of your funds.
As for the point of alby hub specifically it is easy to use and integrates very well with nostr apps through NWC.
From the any hub website:
"Alby Hub is a new open source, self-custodial lightning wallet by Alby allowing users to run their own node and easily connect to dozens of apps. Hub features a one-click install lightning node, a self-custodial wallet, and an easy-to-use app store, which enables users to connect social media apps such as Damus or Stacker News, Podcasting 2.0 apps and external lightning wallets directly to their own Alby Hub node via NWC integration, all set up in just a few clicks."
https://albyhub.com/

2024-10-10 11:08:38

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Unrealised capital gains tax is coming. Just yesterday this passed the lower house of Parliament in Australia.
Tax on unrealised gains in retirement accounts if the banalce is over $3 million AUD. There was an amendment to have this index to inflation but that was voted against.